Light Railways Act 1912
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1912 c. 19 |
| Year | 1912 |
Light Railways Act, 1912
(2 & 3 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 19.
An Act to continue and amend the Light Railways Act, 1896.
[13th December 1912]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Power of Board of Trade to submit order to Parliament.
(1) If any order under the Light Railways Act, 1896 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), is not confirmed by the Board of Trade on the ground that the proposals of the promoters ought to be submitted to Parliament in pursuance of subsection (3) of section nine of the principal Act, the Board may, if they think fit, submit the proposals to Parliament by bringing in a Bill for the confirmation of the Order.
(2) If, while a Bill confirming any such Order is pending in either House of Parliament, a petition is presented against the Order, the Bill, so far as it relates to the Order, may be referred to a Select Committee, or, if the two Houses of Parliament think fit so to order, to a Joint Committee of both Houses, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of Private Bills.
(3) On bringing in a Bill under this section for the confirmation of an Order, the Board of Trade shall make a special report to Parliament with respect to the Order.
2 Extension of limit on amount available for special advances.
2. The sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds shall be substituted in section six of the principal Act for two hundred and fifty thousand pounds as the limit of the amount which may be expended for the purpose of special advances under that Act.
3 Reference to Light Railway Commissioners of applications for advances under the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909.
3. In the case of an application for an advance under Part I. of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909, for the purpose of a light railway in Great Britain by any body or person other than a Government Department, the Light Railway Commissioners shall, for the purposes of section four of that Act, be taken to be the Government department concerned, and accordingly the application shall be sent by the Treasury under that section to the Light Railway Commissioners, to be by them referred, together with their report thereon, to the Development Commissioners.
4 Power to modify s. 92 of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18, or as respects Scotland, s. 90 of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 19.
4. Notwithstanding anything contained in section eleven of the principal Act, provision may be made by an order under the principal Act for varying section ninety-two of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, or section ninety of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, as incorporated in the order in such a manner as to provide for the taking of part only of a house, building, or manufactory, except where it is shown to the authority to whom the question of disputed compensation is submitted that that part cannot be severed from the remainder of the property without material detriment thereto, but no such provision shall be made unless the Light Railway Commissioners are satisfied that special notice of the proposal to acquire part only of the house, building, or manufactory has been given under paragraph (b ) of subsection (2) of section seven of the principal Act to the owner, lessee, and occupier of the house, building, or manufactory.
5 Miscellaneous amendments of principal Act.
(1) The requirement contained in paragraph (b ) of subsection (2) of section three of the principal Act that the expenditure of a council shall in a certain case be limited by the order shall be amended by the substitution of the words ‘such amount as the Board of Trade think fit under the circumstances,’ for the words ‘such amount as will, in the opinion of the Board of Trade, bear due proportion to the benefit which may be expected to accrue to their area from the construction or working of the railway.’
(2) There shall be substituted for the words...
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